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Maybe I have more exposure to science and government than your average person, but I’m seeing a lot of friends and family directly impacted by these attacks.

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expecting things from other people is a one way ticket to disappointment, every single time.

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older men develop a gut or “beer belly” as an evolutionary adaptation to mimic younger pregnant women, who are more valuable to the tribe than a senescent male

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This is a real physical object that exists. The only way I could tell that it was a @NanoRaptor creation is because it’s not an Apple.

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I bought groceries, and drafted up a meal plan. Shoulda bought cookies.

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I think all design, and by extension all software, is at some level inherently political. But some software is a bit more vocal about it: https://www.xda-developers.com/story-notepad-plus-plus/

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They keep trying to tell me the reason my homeowner's insurance quotes are so high is because I don't have a car to cover lol The rot that cars have created goes so deep

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I often wonder whether it would be possible to build (relatively) inexpensive PRT monorails using minimally disruptive concrete footings allowing for the line to travel through otherwise challenging terrain. of course, modern construction is all predicated upon getting large trucks and […]

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My entryway was collecting recyclables so I left the door a jar

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Are there any web browsers where I can easily (without installing an extension) create more than two instances that don’t know anything about the data in the other ones? Chrome and Firefox can easily do two by using a regular window and a private/incognito one, but any additional windows/tabs […]

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I think my ideal phone form factor would be a rectangular prism roughly the size of the original iPods. Small enough that my thumb can easily hit the entire screen, but thick enough to store a large battery

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“I think you must be mistaken about the radiation leak. All the tardigrades on this slide are doing just fine.”

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I am not an enby, but somebody they/them-ed me on another platform where I am pseudonymous and honestly it was pretty dope to have my words and ideas considered without tacit reference to the bits ‘twixt my nethers.

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Here’s my hot take about bicycling in the rain, after having lived and biked in several places stereotyped for how rainy they are: It doesn’t actually rain as much as you think it does. Days on which it rains does not necessarily mean that it will be raining when you have to travel. Absolutely […]

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Seems like climate change is gonna keep the botanists busy

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People who are still doing Wordle every day have a level of consistency I can only dream of.

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In retrospect surprised we didn’t see any maskots during early covid

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Still kind of peeved that they killed HomeEc between my brother going to school and me going to school. My brother who has never once used the skill, learned to sew in middle school. Myself? I only learned in my late 20s, though I’ve used it often since then.

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"#KewGardens will open a new "ground-breaking" garden in July that explores the urgent need to tackle #ClimateChange. It aims to inspire visitors to take actions in their everyday lives to support the planet." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn89v3de683o A garden may not sound like much […]

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I got my PhD position based mostly on the strength of my ideas. During my interview I off-the-dome suggested three or four possible ideas for projects in a field which I was not already immersed in. As I would later learn, these ideas were mostly too ambitious, and beyond the state of the art […]

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Every billionaire is bad. There are no good ones. The act of becoming or remaining a billionaire necessarily requires cruelty, even if only through omission (though generally if you scratch the surface it is commission). This is true for Pritzker, this is true for Taylor Swift. No such thing as […]

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I finished watching Marvellous Mrs Maisel and I’m not sure honesty how I felt about it. It is a weird shaped thing. One aspect I thought was very clever: the structure of the final season. By peppering the final season with flashforwards, you get the satisfaction of knowing what will happen […]

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that movie that everyone says is good, that people have recommended specifically to you, that is frequent bedfellows with your favourite movies on lists of movies made by people with similar tastes to you… that you just never feel “in the mood” to watch

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Sad state of affairs that Mark Carney is the good option.

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Car battery maintainer installed on the ICE car. We’ll keep both cars for now, and re-evaluate whenever the next inevitable issue crops up.

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I almost never laugh out loud at media. I’m just not built that way, but this one made me actually cackle.

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Oh good, one of our circuits has short circuited. Between this and the other issues that cropped up this week, looks like I’m spending my entire weekend doing household chores.

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Is anyone using #funkwhale to store Old Time Radio (#otr)? It feels like an ideal use: different servers can store only the series they care about, everything can be browsed from a single site, it doesn't depend on either archive.org or the commercial providers, it improves discovery, etc […]

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One small tip for newbie Python developers: use sets, when appropriate.

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Find your thing to care deeply and actively about to the exclusion of other issues. Trust that someone else has made those issues their thing. I guess.

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It is possible for lots of people to live close together comfortably, with a high quality of life. But it's not possible if they all have cars.

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NOvember is the month of refusal, it comes after the month of acceptance, OKtober

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I’ve mentioned it before (most recently today in a reply), but the Silurian Hypothesis astrobiology paper continues to haunt my thoughts […]

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Related: food is for eating, heirlooms are for using, champagne is for drinking, and fancy clothes are for wearing. You are not a fucking docent, and the Pope is not coming to your house.

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Accessory for an ereader that you put a bookmark into

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Bikes don’t actually need new infrastructure, they just need there to not be cars, which is I am proposing to build the Car Trap: a large multi-lane circle around the city which has only on-ramps and no exits.

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I wonder when I see things like the Feb 28th consumer strike, just how often people are buying things. I don’t buy anything most days, but the subtext is that that’s not true for many.

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Pokémon Snap death match game: You play as paparazzi celebrities trying to photograph each other. Clearer, well-framed photos score more. Pick up telephoto lenses and other equipment throughout the arena.

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Just saw the Mozilla terms thing. What is the Firefox alternative that I won’t have to switch away from in a year’s time?

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Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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For the last five years, I’ve been researching and advocating for a safe bike route between our town and the next town over (where the grocery store and school is). It got to the point where the regional government was set to vote on whether to send a shovel-ready grant application to the BC […]

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The inside of your own mind remains the last refuge of true privacy. For now.

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Dear Ontario, I would be much obliged if I did not have to see, hear from, or think about Doug Ford ever again. Please vote accordingly.

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We talk about the fall of the Roman Empire like it slipped on a banana peel one day and was over, but the reality is that it was a centuries long dissolution, with institutions morphing into new ones. I think we’re probably already in the fall of the American Empire, and maybe have been for […]

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I think about this map a lot. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/

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the first generation after collapse will live on the shadow of our excess. some necessities will be sparse, but others will be plentiful.

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Shocked by how affordable NYC property is outside of Manhattan. I was under the impression that New York was expensive to live in.

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If that’s Gomez’s Hamburger, I’d hate to meet Gomez

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